Bible Verses Important to Me 8

                                A certain ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good?  No one is good but God alone.  You know the commandments.”  He replied, “I have kept all these since my youth.”  When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “There is still one thing lacking.  Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”  But when he heard this the ruler became sad; for he was very rich.  Jesus looks at him and said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!  Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

From Luke 18:18-23

I imagine, over the course of Christian history, this has been one of the most rationalized passages of the New Testament.  Very hard for most western societies to stare this one straight in the face.